Luke 7:37

A woman known in the city as a sinner learns Jesus is dining there and brings an alabaster jar of ointment. Her approach signals deep devotion and need.

Cross-references · 17

• Mark 14:3–9While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard — very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
• Matt 26:6–13Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
• Luke 7:37–39Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
• Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
• Luke 5:30Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
• 1 Pet 4:18“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
• Luke 5:32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
• Luke 18:13But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
• 1 Tim 1:9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
• John 12:1–8Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
• John 11:2It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
• Rom 5:8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• John 9:24So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
• Luke 19:7When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
• Luke 7:34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
• 1 Tim 1:15The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
• John 9:31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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